The Itanium Processor Family: Built on Two Impressive Legacies
At the heart of this next wave in computing power is the next generation of computing architectures, the Intel® Itanium® processor family. This was the result of a joint development project between Hewlett-Packard and Intel®[8] Corporation. Intel, with its four-fifths share of the PC microprocessor market and proven ability in microprocessor design and volume production, was a key partner in the project. Hewlett-Packard, also one of the top five producers of microprocessors, came with a slightly different skill set. HP's direction was from the more high value workstation- and server-centric side.
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